When part-time fixer Chance Yang is hired to investigate a pair of suspicious deaths, the trail leads him from the sunny shores of Spain to the posh boroughs of London.At the request of a dying man, Chance is called to Spain to find answers to a decades-old mystery surrounding the death of a young governess.When life brings Chance back to London, he meets Detective Nigel Weatherby of the Metropolitan Police. Referred by his flamboyant former boss, Felipe Ka...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024: Nature WritingThe untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts*'*A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration of nature, history, and – of course – the countryside.' Charles Spencer, author of The White ShipFor most of human history, we were rural folk.Our daily lives were bound up with wo...

The gripping conclusion to the saga that started with a desperate woman in a tower and the Dark Wizard who freed her…The time has come…With the hidden archives unlocked and their explosive secrets waiting to be deciphered, the Convocation teeters on the edge of chaos. Alise Elal, rescued from her evil father’s clutches by an unlikely hero, faces the ultimate test of her hard-won powers—if she and Cillian Harahel can fight their way to Convocation Center. There they...

Why is the dragon the only fantasy creature in the Chinese zodiac? Maybe it's because dragons aren't a fantasy after all...Moli has never seen a dragon, but she'd imagined one many times. Following the death of her father, a museum curator and historian, her need to escape from the real world has never felt so acute.Travelling from China to London to attend the funeral, Moli takes the opportunity to visit her father's last exhibition, "The Lost Dynasty of...

Soldark. A bustling city where dreams come true.That’s what seamstress Mae Wright hopes, anyway.But when she moves into her new shop premises, everything goes wrong. She loses all her money while saving her runaway dog, and none of her sewing equipment arrived in transit.A handsome yet reclusive theater director named Des offers her a job mending costumes, and she can’t help but accept.Mae enters the backstage life: full of chaotic costume changes, quirky ac...

It was just a typical day for third-year university student Edith Orozco as she boarded her train home, but her world is unexpectedly thrown into chaos as she finds herself thrust into a time traveling adventure to save humanity from a seemingly unstoppable evil.With the help of her niece, Moli, and two strangers, James and Kiza, the group must travel through time to collect nine wonders from history in just nine days. Only then can they hope to save the world from Pandorai, a mu...

He left to save her from herself… But who will save him from her?When Lady Seliah Phel wakes from a drugged sleep to find herself abandoned by her newly bonded wizard, she vows revenge—and to hunt him down. Tracking him through the familiar wilds of the marshlands of her home is the easy part; learning to use her nascent magical skills is something else entirely. So is facing the vast, uncaring society of the Convocation in a time of brewing war.Jadren El-Adrel is ...

In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time, and space, traveling from...

London, 1814Hope Stuckeley has lusted after the handsome and charismatic Michael Ashmore, the Viscount Lichfield, for ages—never mind that she's never actually spoken to him. When the two join forces to investigate a London stock market scandal, pretending he is courting her gives her the chance to prove she's more than the bookworm he takes her for.After years of service as a soldier and newly titled as a viscount, actual marriage and settling down are the last th...

Welcome to Soldark, where those who dare can ignite their destiny.Meet four women of the city of Soldark, as they forge their own paths through the seasons.Mae. The seamstress down on her luck, but chasing her destiny.Verity. The clockmaker's daughter, who gets in over her head after a theft.Caz. The plucky journalist looking for her big break.Aurelia. The ambitious inventor who’ll do anything for her family’s prosperity.Join Mae, Verity, Caz...

Can Yvonne stand against the darkness and win?Yvonne is looking forward to spending time with her adoptive children, and catching her breath after recent adventures.But nothing goes to plan. Her journey home is interrupted by an unexpected attack, and when she does get back to the house, her son is missing.Can Yvonne, and the allies she has gathered, stand against a new enemy who seems to have risen out of the dark?The Rising conclu...

All she wants is to be a Lady. All he wants is an honest wife.After escaping to the garden for a reprieve from the stuffy ballroom, Miss Evelyn Trainor bumps into a handsome stranger through a hedge. When he boldly requests an introduction, she lies and tells him a fake name, Lady Eve, positive she’ll never see him again.But when she returns to the country for Christmas and finds her handsome stranger—the Duke of Alverton—has moved in next door for the holidays, she does wh...